Numbers 79, 80 (Colin Matthews ) and 81 (Southern Electricity) is a Grade II listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1986. Terrace of houses, shops. 2 related planning applications.
Numbers 79, 80 (Colin Matthews ) and 81 (Southern Electricity)
- WRENN ID
- proud-span-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Didcot and Wantage MP: Olly Glover (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1986
- Type
- Terrace of houses, shops
- Address
- Numbers 79, 80 (Colin Matthews ) and 81 (Southern Electricity), High Street, Wallingford, OX10 0BX
- OS grid reference
- SU 607 894
- Coordinates
- 51.60103, -1.12487
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 79, 80 (Colin Matthews) and 81 (Southern Electricity) are a terrace of four houses, now with shops on the ground floor. They date from the early 18th century and have undergone some alterations in the late 20th century. The left side features 20th-century red brick, while the central and right sections have 20th-century shop fronts. The building is constructed of grey brick with red brick dressings and has an old plain-tile roof that is half-hipped on the left. There is a brick end stack on the left and ridge stacks located to the left of centre, in the centre, and to the right of centre.
The structure is two storeys high with an attic and has an eight-window range. The shop fronts include central glazed doors on the right and in the centre. To the left of centre, there is a 20th-century glazed door leading to a recessed porch, which features a segmental brick archway with a keystone. On the left, there is a four-pane horned sash window with a segmental brick head and keystone above. A damaged flat brick band runs between the ground and first floors. The first floor has four-pane segmental headed horned sashes with segmental brick heads and keystones, except for two 20th-century windows that occupy original openings on the left. The eaves are adorned with a plain rendered cornice, while the right side has a panelled brick parapet and the left side has a part-rendered plain brick parapet. There is a hipped dormer on the left and flat-roofed dormers to the left and right of centre, as well as to the right. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
Numbers 79, 80 (Colin Matthews ) and 81 (Southern Electricity) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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